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Mar
22
Posted by cmurphy to Friday Volunteer News
Happy Friday! Happy Spring! Spring into some volunteering this season.
GenerationOn just launched a campaign to fight child hunger. Hunger is a big problem in the United States. Between March 18 and April 30, you can help provide 1 million meals for kids who don’t have enough to eat—and bring your own ideas and solutions to the table. Learn more about What Will You Bring to the Table.
Mar
21
Posted by cmurphy to Change Notes, Michelle Nunn
Friends,
I heard a story recently that reminded me of the often unexpected impact of volunteer service.
Faye Hendrix is a sales associate at the Belk department store in Fayetteville, Ga., a main-street town south of Atlanta that is in many ways like the Georgia town where I grew up. It's a community with deep roots, where neighbors don't just know each others' names, they know their aunts' and uncles' names, too. It's a town where volunteer service isn't a "movement," it's just something you do.
Mar
21
Posted by cmurphy to National Volunteer Week
In honor of National Volunteer Week coming up next month (April 12-27), here are five reasons why we should take some time out of our schedule to help ourselves and others by volunteering.
Mar
20
Posted by cmurphy to corporate institute
Today's blog is republished from the CSRwire blog, part three of the Civic 50 series. Today's post is written by Jackie Norris, Executive Director of Points of Lights' Corporate Institute.
A few years ago, Bladimir Martinez, then 16, was chosen as one of 10 high school students to run a real Capital One bank branch inside Parkdale High School in Prince George’s County, Maryland -- a county where only 44 percent of high school graduates are considered college or career ready.